"Macho Man" Mark Driscoll as Pastor Provocateur

Emerging Church leader Mark "The Cussing Pastor" Driscoll has been getting a good deal of play from the media lately. Recently, Christianity Today profiled Mark Driscoll in an article appropriately entitled Pastor Provocateur.

Here's a quote:

Driscoll "comes off as a smart-aleck former frat boy," according to The Seattle Times. Guilty as charged. If he hasn't offended you, you've never read his books or listened to his sermons. On any given Sunday at Mars Hill, it's possible that a visiting fire marshal will get saved. But it's just as likely that a guest will flip him off before walking out.

And just last week the Mars Hill pastor spoke at the "Convergent Conference" held at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Emergent Village has provided an excellent roundup of the conference. The infamous Roger Moran has even offered a few thoughts on Driscoll and the Emerging Church Movement. On the Baptist seminary's campus, Driscoll had this to say (as reported by Baptist Press):

Driscoll also noted the position of Rob Bell, a pastor that he does not know personally but whose writings, including "Velvet Elvis," he has read. Noting that Bell has called into question the virgin birth, Driscoll said, "The question that begs to be answered is, 'Do we lose anything if we lose the virgin birth of Jesus Christ?' ...

"To the Lord Jesus, [such doubt] is insulting," Driscoll said. "First of all, Mary said that she was a virgin. If she was really a lying whore, that does change the story. Because if the lying whore raises a young boy who says He is God, why believe the extravagant claims of the child of a lying whore? Following the resurrection, Jesus' mother Mary was with the disciples worshipping Him as God as part of the early church. Why would we believe the testimony of the resurrection of Jesus from a lying whore?

I have never downloaded a Driscoll sermon. I only know Mark Driscoll through Donald Miller's Blue Like Jazz where he is described as Mark "The Cussing Pastor." So, I decided to check out Pastor Provocateur.

Driscoll doesn't disappoint. He's offensive In the following clips you'll find a short clip on "The Chick-i-Fied Church" and a 8 minute bigoted rant.